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American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
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Re: American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
#32https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/legal-infor... "Unless otherwise noted, all information, AAdvantage® account information, articles, data, images, passwords, Personal Identification Numbers ("PINs"), screens, text, user names, Web pages, or other materials (collectively "Content") appearing on the Site are the exclusive property of American Airlines Group, Inc., or American Airlines, Inc., or their su…
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Re: American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
#33"Illegal" is the headline is the wrong word here. There are no criminal proceedings, just a civil case. Breach of contract is all that is being alleged here.
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#34I honestly don’t know who to root for here. TPG is one of my favorite sites, but American is one of my favorite airlines.
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#35> The interest was monetization of customer eyeballs, an American Airlines source shared that they wanted customers checking accounts at AA.com where they could be marketed to.
It seems like so many problems, annoyances and inconvenience in modern society are artificially created/maintained just to enable this disgusting industry. Imagine how more efficient things could be if this cancer was eradicated once and for all.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
But just because AA says so on their website does not make it so. Is there any evidence that they actually agreed to the TOS you linked? That they even read or were presented with a copy of it? And even if they agreed to the terms, what is the appropriate remedy for breaching the agreement?
Also, are click through agreements really binding? Imagine if the terms said “by visiting, you agree to pay us $100,000 in 12 months”
There are worse things to accidentally agree to :)
https://bit-tech.net/news/gaming/pc/gamestation-we-own-your-...
Re: American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
#37I'm surprised that an affiliate marketing company is willing to get in such a fight. Like I would have thought everything they did was blessed and even paid for by airlines and credit cards.
There may be a tension between AA and Citi, who provides the cards and likely shoulders the costs of the various signon bonuses and benefits out of their card revenue.
Re: American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
#38https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/legal-infor... "Unless otherwise noted, all information, AAdvantage® account information, articles, data, images, passwords, Personal Identification Numbers ("PINs"), screens, text, user names, Web pages, or other materials (collectively "Content") appearing on the Site are the exclusive property of American Airlines Group, Inc., or American Airlines, Inc., or their su…
Putting something on the site does not establish a legal right. I can make a site saying anybody who looks at it owes me a million dollars, that wouldn't mean they actually do. And I'm not sure my information stored at AA account is actually an exclusive property of AA. At the minimum, it's not cut-and-dry at all, and probably depends on current legislation and caselaw.
Re: American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
#39https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/legal-infor... "Unless otherwise noted, all information, AAdvantage® account information, articles, data, images, passwords, Personal Identification Numbers ("PINs"), screens, text, user names, Web pages, or other materials (collectively "Content") appearing on the Site are the exclusive property of American Airlines Group, Inc., or American Airlines, Inc., or their su…
> You may not ... use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes
That's not what the app was doing:
> The app ... had been ‘screen scraping’ accounts for members
So it wasn't "public or commercial", it was for people who had accounts to view/manage their account details.
Same as Plaid or Mint for banks, or (more generally) any old web browser for literally any website.
Re: American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
#40https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/support/legal-infor... "Unless otherwise noted, all information, AAdvantage® account information, articles, data, images, passwords, Personal Identification Numbers ("PINs"), screens, text, user names, Web pages, or other materials (collectively "Content") appearing on the Site are the exclusive property of American Airlines Group, Inc., or American Airlines, Inc., or their su…
"Whoever reads this message agrees to transfer 10% of their wealth to Doctors Without Borders at most 5 laboral days after the reading"
It could be nice, but it's unenforceable.